Cold Chain Analysis and Benchmarking

Abstract

The internship at Havmor Ice Creams Pvt. Ltd. was completely based on supply chain and replenishment. The initial objective of the project was to understand company operations at its warehouses and manufacturing facility and then suggest loop holes where cost reduction can be done. Over the period of time, due to the pandemic the project objective was modified to analyzing and understanding the cold supply chain and various cost cutting opportunities in the same. In the process, the Indian cold supply chain market was studied in detail and the various factors that influenced the market were analyzed in detail. All these factors are functionalities of various cost influencers in the supply chain. As a second step, the various cost factors influencing the cold supply chain was studied and some recommendations for improving the warehouse operational efficiencies were given. The latter half of the project involved coping with supply chain disruption and involving with the supply chain team to understand real life challenges in supply chain due to the pandemic and then assisting the team in daily coordination with transporters and other service providers. The major learning technically has been the operations of a supply chain team and also at a personal level the importance and effectiveness of working as a team and understanding the challenges one has to face to be a real leader under challenging circumstances.